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Title: Cipher for Telegraphic Correspondence; arranged expressly for Military Operations, and for important Government despatches. [Cipher Book #2]
Creator: Stager, Anson, 1825-1885
Date Created and/or Issued: 1865
1866
1867
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Thomas T. Eckert Papers
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Laid in the front cover is a list of cipher holders for no.1 and no. 5 in Division of the Gulf on yellow carbon paper sheet dated 1866, May 7; also a receipt for No. 12 cipher on telegraph paper, signed T.R. Boyle, July 13, 1866. Four pages (numbered 27-30) bound in between p. 11 and 12, four blue unnumbered pages bound in between p. 25 and 26. A list of cipher holders on t.p. verso. Ms. page numbers.
Extent: 30, [6] pages ; 15x9 cm
Identifier: mssEC 47
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll11/id/596
Subject: Cryptography--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Cryptography--United States
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Communications--Sources
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Cryptography
United States. Military Telegraph Corps
Source: Thomas T. Eckert papers, 1861-1877 (bulk 1862-1867)
Thomas T. Eckert Papers, Decoding the Civil War
Provenance: Purchased in part by the Library Collectors' Council from Seth Kaller, January 21, 2012.

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